Teachers, including language teachers, have always adopted technological innovation, whether it is the photocopier, CD player, or the personal computer, in order to improve their support of students. Yet acceptance of ebooks in educational settings, even in higher education, has been very slow. Industry statistics show that while ebook sales continue to grow in almost every sector, epublications have a very low acceptance rate among students. This presentation will examine the kinds of technological innovations available for online publications, consider reasons why students and teachers express disinterest in epublications, and examine cultural and economic factors that result in the acceptance of new technologies. Then the session will turn to the future, and consider a number of factors that may increase the acceptance of epublications, but transform the publications so that they are no longer books with flat, static content, but dynamic, multimedia learning tools. Among the factors that will affect the future of epublications for language learning include
